English boxing promoter Frank Warren has launched a stinging attack on Amir Khan, telling his countryman to stop moaning about the way he lost his IBF and WBA junior welterweight titles to American Lamont Peterson.
Warren entered the debate surrounding Khan?s controversial split decision defeat last month in Washington, D.C., following the dethroned titleholder?s decision to publish pictures on Twitter of a mystery man sitting ringside and seemingly talking with WBA representative Michael Welsh throughout the explosive contest.
Although, as of yet, nobody has been able to identify the hat-wearing individual, Warren still believes Khan — twice docked a point against Peterson for pushing — and his team should drop their ?garbage? complaints and accept that on the night he was beaten fair and square.
?Most people in boxing are looking at this and saying: ?For God?s sake, Amir, give it a rest,'” Warren said on talkSPORT radio. ?I can?t see what is untoward about (the pictures). Everyone has got to step back and look at the fight. Was it an outrageous decision? The answer to that is ‘no’.
?He was told on numerous occasions he would get points deducted if he kept doing what he did. He kept doing what the referee told him not to do. Jim Watt, in his commentary on Sky TV, said it more or less the same time that I was thinking ?if he keeps doing it, the referee will dock another point.? That?s exactly what the referee did.
